Trump Class Battleships Could Get Megawatt Lasers: Navy’s Top Officer

The dream of laser weapons has not materialized nearly as fast as the Pentagon once thought it would, but the Navy's top ...
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Legacy naval guns find new life in the drone age

The presence of a Cold War-era naval gun, installed in a fixed position on shore, in today’s precision-guided missile ...
Defense One

I ‘did not expect to be told to build a battleship,’ Navy’s surface warfare director says

“I did not expect to be told to build a battleship when I got this job,” Rear Adm. Derek Trinque, the Navy staff’s surface ...
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Why the U.S. Navy Doesn’t Build Battleships Anymore

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...
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Israel detains ship loaded with weapons

In the largest naval seizure of it kind, Israeli Navy commandoes captured a ship loaded with "hundreds of tons" of weapons headed for Syria, Israeli military official ...